Webinar Series Archive
I’ve Got a Retirement Saving Tool for You: The Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
I’ve Got a Retirement Saving Tool for You: The Individual Retirement Account (IRA) This session highlights the world of traditional and Roth IRAs, retirement savings vehicles many can take advantage of, yet not [...]
Decolonizing Higher Education: A 28-Year-Old Professor’s Perspective
Decolonizing Higher Education: A 28-Year-Old Professor’s Perspective This session unpacks the nature and effectiveness of academic tools used by educators (e.g., lateness, exams, and textbooks) and provides participants with an understanding of culturally [...]
Collaborating With Student Scholars
Collaborating With Student Scholars This webinar provides three perspectives on a successful collaboration with student scholars at California State University Dominguez Hills. Dr. Laura Talamante, Professor, History, shares her experience publishing an article [...]
Computational Literacy for Modern Careers
Computational Literacy for Modern Careers In an increasingly automated world, many people assume that working with computers, robots, CNC machines, and such is far too complicated and simply out of the question. NCLab's [...]
Shutdowns, Snowballs, and Sages
Shutdowns, Snowballs, and Sages This session asks the question, “What do shutdowns, snowballs, and sages have in common?” The answer may surprise you as all three have to do with different aspects of [...]
America’s Missing Piece: Understanding and Teaching DEI’s Generational Module
America's Missing Piece: Understanding and Teaching DEI's Generational Module Within each generation – Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X – there are many demographics, including women, minorities, and white men. Three generations of faculty and [...]
NISOD in a Nutshell LIVE: Creating an Individual Login
NISOD in a Nutshell LIVE: Creating an Individual Login This special NISOD in a Nutshell LIVE explains how to set up an Individual Login Account and the benefits of doing so. If you [...]
The Word “Technology” Is in the Way: Thinking Beyond the Term
The Word “Technology" Is in the Way: Thinking Beyond the Term For centuries, technology tools have aided the learning process. How do we think beyond the term “technology” to leverage learner experiences? How [...]
Improving Curriculum to Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Improving Curriculum to Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion This webinar shares research on curriculum equity. The facilitator provides examples of how equity can be facilitated in the classroom by allowing students to choose [...]
Finance for Females
Finance for Females The goal of this webinar is to help attendees understand the relationship between women, money, investing, and other financial topics. This subject continues to grow in importance for many reasons [...]
Examining the Efficacy of Electronic Student Messaging Systems
Examining the Efficacy of Electronic Student Messaging Systems This webinar explores extant literature regarding the efficacy of electronic communication systems and programs to influence student actions. Large institutional investments have been made in [...]
It’s All in Your Head: Psychology, Money, and the Economies of Our Lives
It’s All in Your Head: Psychology, Money, and the Economies of Our Lives This session focuses on the psychology of money. Learn how the evolution and structure of the brain affect decisions we [...]
What Everyone Ought to Know About Professor Flexibility, Philosophy, and Student Completion
What Everyone Ought to Know About Professor Flexibility, Philosophy, and Student Completion This webinar provides an overview of a two-year data project that collaborated with the college's institutional research department to determine if changes in [...]
How to Boost Your Financial and Physical Wellness: The Parallels Between Money and Fitness
How to Boost Your Financial and Physical Wellness: The Parallels Between Money and Fitness People aim to change their behavior in many areas of life, and none are more common than getting into [...]
Affordable Professional Development for Your Faculty and Staff
Affordable Professional Development for Your Faculty and Staff Are you seeking an easy and affordable way to provide your faculty and staff with high-quality professional development? NISOD has assembled an outstanding group of [...]
Engaging Learners Through Creative Assessments
Engaging Learners Through Creative Assessments This webinar explores how creative assessments can engage learners by allowing them to demonstrate knowledge using their individual strengths; allows participants in all disciplines to challenge the way [...]
Leveraging Wikipedia in First-Year Interest Courses: A High-Impact Learning Model
Leveraging Wikipedia in First-Year Interest Courses: A High-Impact Learning Model The first year of a student’s higher education experience is an integral time to learn skills and build habits that will support students [...]
Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Weeds: Collaborative Capstones
Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Weeds: Collaborative Capstones Implementing a cross-departmental capstone course often leaves faculty feeling like they have their heads in the clouds and feet in the weeds. Come explore how to integrate capstone courses across multiple information technology [...]
Creating a More Inclusive Healthcare Program Admissions Process
Creating a More Inclusive Healthcare Program Admissions Process Healthcare Program Admission processes can be rigorous and still allow for equity and inclusion. This webinar shares how Forsyth Technical Community College’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Program used data [...]
Coping With COVID: A Snapshot of Faculty Skills, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Coping With COVID: A Snapshot of Faculty Skills, Challenges, and Lessons Learned In spring 2020, the world shifted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this webinar, the facilitators share the results of an investigation into what their two-year colleagues have done to [...]
Supervising and Supporting Staff and Faculty in a Virtual World
Supervising and Supporting Staff and Faculty in a Virtual World The current pandemic has some institutions mandating that staff and faculty work 100 percent remotely. This is a significant adjustment to the way we operate as a team and support one [...]
The Scope of Colleges
The Scope of Colleges This webinar explores why and how faculty must align and connect course objectives, course learning outcomes, and program learning outcomes with syllabi, class lessons, and assessment plans. The facilitator explains curriculum [...]
Guided Pathways: A First Look at Student Experiences and the Role of Faculty
Guided Pathways: A First Look at Student Experiences and the Role of Faculty Across the country, colleges are redesigning guided pathways. How are students experiencing this change? This webinar discusses a national report from the Center [...]
A Syrian Immigrant’s Perspective on Teaching English to Non-Native Speakers
A Syrian Immigrant's Perspective on Teaching English to Non-Native Speakers This webinar presents an activity that teaches English to international and immigrant students. The presented activity includes three procedures that shore up students' confidence and build their prowess in a [...]
Questions That Create Connections: Fostering Deep Learning in Person and Online With Polling and Quizzing
Questions That Create Connections: Fostering Deep Learning in Person and Online With Polling and Quizzing Whether online, in-person, or any imaginable combination of the two, student engagement matters now more than ever. In this webinar, [...]